We also learned a little about Blizzard's new “Unique Drops” (which are not Titanforging, BTW so stop saying it): These item level increases still stay within the +13 band for each ‘tier’ of difficulty – meaning that Heroic Base would start at item level 402, just +4 after them.398 is reserved for Final Bosses – Broodkeeper Diurna and Raszageth, the Storm-Eater.395 is a new intermediate tier (was previously final bosses) that exists now for Wing Bosses – Dathea, Ascended and Kurog Grimtotem.389 is the base item level for Normal difficulty and will drop from Eranog, Primal Council, Sennarth, and Terros.There now exists a 3rd item level tier at which items may drop, up from 2.

Finally, Blizzard confirmed the item level tiering for Season 1. This means that even small item level increases that aren’t upgrades (as often with rings and necklaces, which are budgeted high in secondary stats) won’t be locked to a player even when they roll and win that item.

While inside a raid, all item-level restrictions placed on trading between members of that group are removed entirely.

Thankfully, loot trading is also getting improved finally. Now, while this isn't Master Loot, Group Loot will at least give guilds a chance to distribute loot themselves, sort of.

Need & Greed UI will return, and we’ll be monitoring feedback to make the rules around when and how players can roll on items be as intuitive as possible.

Some items, like professions reagents, may still use Personal Loot where appropriate.

There is no option to select for yourself or your group to return to Personal Loot.

While inside Vault of the Incarnates, Group Loot will be the only loot distribution method.

Blizzard will announce changes to Mythic+ at a later date.

This is only changing for Raiding in Season 1 of Dragonflight. But what is Blizzard doing and how is the system going to work? Let's take a look at what Blizzard had to say in their Blue Post. So after the experiment failed, it's back to rolling for our items. Sorry to break it to you, dear WoW player. So that's gone at least, oh, but Master Loot isn't coming back, by the way. Oh dear, it looks like you forgot to put that high ilvl trinket in both slots, so now your new useless item is extra useless because no one else can use it. Well, at least you can trade it to a guildie. But wait, you just got loot from the first boss of the raid, and you need loot from the third. Nothing beats loading into your weekly raid, knowing you just need that last item to complete your set and ascend to the top of those DPS meters.

After years of complaining about how unrewarding Personal Loot is, Blizzard has finally ended its reign as the defacto loot system for Dragonflight Season 1.

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